Rosie WhitcombThe book

How to open and print your book

You don't need to install anything. Here is exactly what to do, step by step. If you get stuck, write to help@rosiewhitcomb.com and we'll help you.

1. Find your book

  1. Right after you pay, your screen shows the book with a Read button and a Download button.
  2. You also get an email from Rosie Whitcomb (sent through Gumroad) with an Open my book button. Keep that email. It is your key to the book, forever.
  3. No email? Look in your spam or junk folder. Still nothing after 15 minutes? Write to us and we'll send the link again.
  4. When you open the link from the email, Gumroad may ask you to type your email address once more. That's normal. Type the same address you used to pay.

2. Read it on an iPad or iPhone

The easiest way: tap Read. The book opens right on your screen and remembers your page.

To keep it in the Books app:

  1. Tap Download next to the file that ends in .epub (the phone and tablet edition).
  2. When it opens, tap the Share button (a square with an arrow pointing up).
  3. Choose Books. The book now waits for you in the Books app, and you can make the letters bigger with the Aa button.

3. Read it on a computer

  1. Click Download next to Make-It-Bloom-Again-PRINT-edition.pdf (the whole book).
  2. Open your Downloads folder and double-click the file. It opens in your computer's PDF reader.
  3. Click any chapter in the Contents page to jump straight to it.

4. Print it

  1. Open the PDF on your computer, then choose File, then Print.
  2. Paper: US Letter. Scale: 100% or "Actual size".
  3. To print only your plants, type the page numbers in the Pages box, for example 113 to 126 for the moth orchid. The Contents page lists where each plant starts.
  4. The care cards and calendars are in their own small file called Printables. Print those first. They're the handiest.

Black and white printing works fine. To save ink, skip the cover and the five part-title pages with big photos.

5. Send it to a Kindle

Send the phone and tablet edition (the file that ends in .epub), because a full-size PDF is very small on a Kindle screen.

  1. In your Amazon account go to Devices, then Preferences, then Personal Document Settings, and add noreply@customers.gumroad.com to the Approved Personal Document E-mail List. That is the address Gumroad sends your book from. (Amazon's own steps)
  2. Open your book's page from the link in your email, tap Send to Kindle by the .epub file, type your Kindle's email address and tap Send to Kindle again. Your Kindle's email address is in your Amazon account, under your devices.
  3. Amazon may first send you an email asking you to approve the book. Open it and approve it, and the book appears on your Kindle.

Still stuck?

Write to help@rosiewhitcomb.com. Tell us what you see on your screen and we'll walk you through it.